Over-dimensional / Overweight shipments, also known as Heavy Haul shipments, pose special challenges for shippers. Often times a shipment is both over-dimensional as well as overweight in nature and therefore may require special routings in order to travel only on the highways that permit vehicle weights that can accommodate them in the Continental United States, Canada, and Mexico. The most common types of heavy haul shipments are large pieces of machinery for construction such as excavators and dump trucks.
Heavy Haul shipments frequently require special trucks and trailers that can carry the size of what you’re shipping. They may also require the purchase of special permits issued by the various governmental agencies, States, and municipalities through which your shipment will travel.
Some pictures of what heavy haul trucking looks like are below:
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